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Letters Patent No. 73,687, dated January 28, ISGS, I

IMPROVEMENT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF lJIILK-GANS.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY OONOERN: A

Be it known that I, ESTES ABBOTT, of Willoughby, county of Lake, Stateof Ohio, have invented an Improved Milk-Can for city milkmen; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, .in which--Figure is an elevation of my said improved milk-can.

Figure 2, a vertical section thereof, except the cover and a. portion ofthe neck.

Figure 3, a central section of the upper hoop or band; and

Figure 4, e central section of the lower one.

The same letters refer to similar parts in all 'the igures.

It is Well known' among city milkmen, and others who retail milk, thatthe milk-cans, as commonly manufactured, are not constructed withsuiiicient strength to withstand the rough usage to which they areunavoidably subjected in the travelling-wagons and carts in which theyare placed for the purpose of retailing the contents over n given route.In addition to this defect the body of the can is constructed or made upof a number,

more or less, of separate plates, making a multiplicity of seams. Theseseams not only need repeated repairfrom their great liability to crack,but the milk is very apt to settle and remain in them, so that in timeit becomes sour, and the usual and common mode of cleaning the cansfails to remove such deposit, thereby tainting the fresh contents. i

The object of this invention is to provide a milk-can constructed insueh'rnanncr, and so firmly put together, as to avoid as much aspossible the above-enumerated defects.

The following description will enable those skilled in the art tounderstand its construction:

A, g. 1, is the body of the can. It is composed of one entire sheet ofmetal, say tinned sheet iron of suiicient thickness. The top, C, is ofone'piece, andis pressed or struck up. It is secured on the inside ofthev body A by soldering, as seen at F, iig. 2. The neck I), with itscover E, is iitted to the top in the usual or most convenient way. Thebottom of the can, G, fig. 2, is ol` one entire piece of tinnedplate;its border or rim is turned down, as Shown at H, and in such manner asto leave a space, I, all around between it and the body of the can,which space is to be filled up solid with solder. It will be observedthat'the said bottom is concave on the inside. This form, together withits turned rim II, is given by pressing or striking up. .I Jl J2 nrethree hoops or bands placed on the body A; they are to be of stoutband-iron tinned over. The upper band J, as will be seen in gs. 2 and 3,has its upper edge turned up, at or about a right angle, as seen at a.The lower edge of the lower band .I2 is turned in the same way, as at I.v

The above-described parts are put together thus: After the body A isformed and the seam soldered, the bottom, G, is put in place, and thespace I filled solid with the solder. The top, C, is then secured to thebody by solder on the inside, thon the neck D is secured to the saidtop. The band J is new driven on to its pla-ce, and also band J1, itsturned edge a resting on the top edge of the body, as seen in fig. 2.Lastly the barrd'JZ is put on, its turned odge covering the under edgeofthe body A and bottom, G, as seen in thc figure. Both these turnededges are soldered down tight to the edges which they cover, asexplained.

In order to secure the bands to the body in the strongest possiblemanner, the can, after completion, is horizontally suspended, just deepenough to cover the bands, in a. trough of molten tin, and revolveduntil the bands have taken enough to secure them to the body, ascontemplated.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A new and improved milk-can, as described, constructed inthe mannersubstantially as herein set forth.

ESTES ABBOTT.

Witnesses J. I?. SINGLE, M. S. HARVEY.

